Mishka Zakharin: 10 books

Mishka Zakharin’s newest ebook collection, ‘Enigmatatas and Eclecticicities’ is… well, enigmatic and eclectic!… Compiling an odd and amusing variety of short fiction and random thoughts, Mishka’s musings stray from the sexy and romantic to the scatological and cannibalistic, from the literary...

‘Musk Oxen!!’?! Oh, no, no—it’s all just completely true! (Excepting those bits contrived, exaggerated, adulterated, spurious, or generally skewed in validity… of course.) In the tradition of ‘The Masticator (or: Chew on This for Awhile!)’ and ‘Enigmatatas and Eclecticicities’, Zakharin...

‘Presumed Journeys’ collects 21 poems of libertine wants and lascivious wiles--a free flowing, rambling jaunt of love and lust, dreams and desires, wrought in Zakharin’s esoteric humor and clever verbiage. Originally published independently as a poetry chapbook in 2001, ‘Presumed Journeys’...

In his newest poetry collection, Zakharin strays from the doom and gloom of his previous poetry anthology (‘The Spleen of Fiery Dragons’), offering a lighter, more humorous perspective of existence (i.e. much less spleenly)… at times sexy, at times absurd, at times… well, kind of disturbing,...

In ‘The Masticator!’ Zakharin features 11 works of short fiction, including stories, dialogues, and an historical play in three acts. Zakharin’s unique perspective has been described by some as beatnik… others — well, just think it’s kind of freaking odd — regardless, one cannot help...

A metaphysical play of dark humor, 'Le Morte de Vronsky' is described by Zakharin as "Bulgakovian" (a'la Mikhail Bulgakov)--but admits that it is so, perhaps, if only because its really rather strange... (for example, two of the characters are the voices in the head of the main character--and...

Zakharin’s parody of Dostoyevsky’s classic novel ‘Crime and Punishment’—also including elements from Dostoyevsky’s novel ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ and his short story ‘The Dream of a Ridiculous Man’—but with the grittier, more adult themes (such as murder and prostitution and...

In his latest short story anthology, Zakharin answers (or at least addresses) all of the Big Questions in Life: the Time Loop of the Very Existence of All Things [Poopy Derringer and the Singing Monkey of Death]; demonic underpants [Selected Shorts]; getting small (more in an Alice-ish sort of way,...

In a mythical land, whose geography and populace are inspired by the human digestive tract, Zakharin spins a tale of truly fantastical pun-ishment… who knows what dangers may lurk—whence one dares to venture beyond the Alveolar Ridge…The people of Lippland are in grave danger. Their large,...

Zakharin's parody of Tolstoy's novel of the same name--but with characters and elements added from various other sources of Russian literature (including Dostoyevsky's 'The Double' and Nabokov's 'Lolita'), and set in the absurdist, cartoon-like world of the author's esoteric humor and abstruse imagination.